Well over a thousand of you voted for their favorite characters, including many popular choices, but also many that were certainly not mainstream, showing just how diverse the tastes of our readers are. Without further ado, here are the results:

The vote for Best Waifu was insanely close among the two who were deemed by far “best girl” by our readers. Ultimately, YoRHa 2B from NieR: Automata came on top. She managed to leave just a few inches behind our runner-up, Makoto Nijima from Persona 5. Dividing the sexy android and the conflicted Student Council President there were only four votes.

Other honorable mentions who received over twenty votes are (in this order) Futaba Sakura also from Persona 5, Pyra/Homura from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Kat from Gravity Rush 2, YoRHaA2 from NieR: Automata, Zelda from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Ann Takamaki from Persona 5, Mythra/Hikari from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and Aloy from Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Moving on to Best Husbando, votes were a lot more spread out among many different candidates. The winners didn’t leave the rest of the pack behind as much as among the waifus, and the difference between first and third was only seven votes.

We should definitely give a round of applause to Goro Majima, also from Yakuza, who placed only two votes behind Kazuma Kiryu. Interestingly, the sum of the votes for Yakuza‘s duo of protagonists actually beat the grand total for the male cast of Persona 5. Other honorable mentions are YoRHa9S from NieR: Automata, Link from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Yusuke Kitagawa andRyuji Sakamoto from Persona 5, William from NiOh, and B.J. Blazkowicz from Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus.

Our congratulations go to Character Designer Akihiko Yoshida and the “dream team ” Square Enix, PlatinumGames, and Yoko Taro for creating 2B, Character Designer Shigenori Soejima and Atlus for designing Makoto and Ren, and Character Designers Takeo Kimata and Saizo Nagai and Sega for giving us Kazuma Kiryu back in 2005 and today. Of course, we should not forget all the developers involved in the design of the many other characters that proved so popular among you all.

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market.
RPGs (of any nationality) and MMORPGs are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games.
He is also one of the few surviving fans of the flight simulator genre on Earth.